Episode description
"Bus Fuss" Rainstorm Brainstorm, Episode 4
- Time: 5pm CST
- Condition: thunderstorm
- Location: (Austin, TX)
- Guests: none
- Topic: Okayama bus driver strike as a template for workers strikes in the USA
Narrative Abstraction: US workers can learn from the Okayama bus-strike; show up to work & accept no customer pay
"Morgan enjoys an afternoon shower with a cold mug of pulpy OJ and his last 2 cigarettes for a while. Having just finished a Persona 5 stream, his mind is on Japanese culture. Morgan recalls a bus strike in 2018 in Okayama, Japan. In this strike the bus drivers continued to work and drive their normal routes; they simply didn't take any fares from passengers and cut out the owners from the profits; the strike was successful.
The host imagines a USA where workers for national conglomerates could strike in such a way; how quickly the knees of oligarchs would buckle to being cut out of their own profit models.
As he exhales and watches the smoke blend into the grey clouds looming on the skyline he wonders how best to organize such a thing..."
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